'Modal Approach and Accent'
Gerda Scheepers at blank projects'Modal Approach and Accent' is the title of Gerda Scheepers's show at Blank Projects. By applying imagery as short-hand for both her own art making process or specific (cultural) signs and figurations, Gerda Scheepers explores the medium of painting. Content and formal elements of painting are remixed through cut, copy and paste with the results actively pursuing ambiguity. The sculptures and paintings operate like devices for containment that, ultimately and crucially, fail to contain.
Scheepers often works within series or groupings of work, creating environments for (often repetitive) motifs and gestures. In this selection of work the shape of a t-shirt is at the same time motif in a picture and picture surface for another layer of signifiers, similar to the way that sculptural elements with a very concrete heritage act as support structure to paintings that have shifted through methodical gesture and moved to abstraction.
The work is caught up in a system signifying progress, which is reconfigured in a careful orchestration that deliberately fails to deliver the complete and self-contained result that they seem to promise.
01 March - 31 March














